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Originally Posted by Foo'bar (Post 195945)

That's exactly why Steam would be a good choice.

Steam?

http://translate.google.com/translat...n&hl=&ie=UTF-8

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Originally Posted by The Kraken (Post 195946)

Steam?

http://translate.google.com/translat...n&hl=&ie=UTF-8

Sorry mate but google translation from russian to anything else is nothing else than c**p. I don't understand that.

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Originally Posted by Foo'bar (Post 195948)

Sorry mate but google translation from russian to anything else is nothing else than c**p. I don't understand that.

Well I wouldn't take it as a "reliable source" for sure, and who knows what "Steam" in that context means... but "Ilya replied that there was something somehow will run through Steam" is one of the more straight-forward translations from Google. But ok probably not a good idea to start rumours this way, we should anyway find out soon enough.

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Originally Posted by nearmiss (Post 195904)

It may be you are right. Remember, Oleg has a lot patches and addons coming our way. A lot of distributors want too much control with addons and patches.

So... Ubi may not be a best choice as many view it, but from a developers point of view it may be a best go.

Just to be clear, I won't blame or criticise the developers for choosing whichever publisher they fancy. There's lots of things that can affect their decision, and after all the effort they've made developing this sim who can begrudge them. But that doesn't mean we have to like their choice :)

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Originally Posted by Richie (Post 195941)

Please don't take any offense but I think you two are very much in the minority. To me the IL-2 series was always meant to be played online. I think if people have trouble with online play Storm Of War it would be catastrophic.

And what makes you think that i am not a online player???
That is typical black-white thinking!
Completely unsuitable for any kind of discussion.
I just want to be able to play even if my internet-connection is f****ed up again!

Yeah, I also thought you meant the DRM crap.

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Originally Posted by robtek (Post 195936)

I, for my part, couldn't care less who the publisher is as long as i can play without
internet connection and can sell (if i ever wanted, just as principle) my copy.

I agree. I'm not against DRM just to be against it and i'm not against copy protection in general. I'm just against certain copy protection or DRM methods that don't let me do what i want to do and what has become the expected norm for fair and legal software usage in my own free time and discretion, that's all :grin:

That being said, UBI was said to have abandoned their DRM scheme. They opted to ship all their latter games (after the SH5/Assassin's creed debacle) with Steam protection. That doesn't mean you can't buy it in a box however. For example, Empire:Total War was a game you could buy in a boxed copy but it required use of a Steam account for activation.

I'm not really a fan of having extra apps running in the background and using up system resources but i'd have to say that even though i've never used it, Steam seems to be the most painless method for online authentication. We can go online once and activate, then we can play in offline mode if our internet connection is down, plus i think you can download the game at no extra charge if you lose the discs as long as you have it registered to your account.

So, if SoW comes along in a boxed copy without securom/starforce/limited activations/permanent online requirement but requires steam for a one-off activation, i'd call that a very good compromise and would have no reservations with it.

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Originally Posted by Triggaaar (Post 195835)

Unless you're getting a really good deal, the 5xxx series aren't a good buy at the moment. The 6xxx series are better for equal money, and if the game develops (as IL2 did) to be more power hungry in a couple of years time, you can then add another 6xxx series, as they are much better in CF than the 5xxx series.

The 6970 promises to be a great card, but until we're given more info we don't know if the game will work better on Nvidia cards. It would be good if you could wait for more information though.

I agree even though no specs have been published. I'm expecting the 6970 to at least match the 5870 for performance and add new graphics capabilities like Tesselation (if we need that).

I've asked both XFX and Scan if they know when and what sort of price bracket, hoping for an answer in the next few days (which will probably be "we don't know yet"). Scan have just offered me a good 'Black Ops' deal with the 5870, pretty much what I posted earlier. If the 6970 is several months away (actually to market) I'll go with the 5870.

My fingers are itching now :(

speculum jockey,

I've always been a Nvidia man (2 x 7800GTs atm) but ATI seem to have a big edge just now and I, too, don't believe ATI would allow themselves to be left behind on game compatibility.